My Frozen Tears.
I stood staring at the KIA, stone, reveling in the sheer unfairness of it all.
"Moriana-chan, I knew I would find you here." Said a voice behind me.
"Iruka-kun," I whispered my voice rough from lack of use.
"It's been months, you need to move on." Iruka said, not trying to be mean, but trying to talk some sense into me. He was right; it had been months since my team had been killed, since they had left me all alone. I really did need to get over it, but just thinking about it sent me spiraling into the darkness again.
"Moriana-chan, they wouldn't want you to be like this. Do you want to talk about it, maybe that would help?" He said, laying a hand on my shoulder, but for all of that, I just stood there, staring at the ground.
I tried so hard not to let the tears fall. A good shinobi doesn't show emotion, but for how hard I tried, I just couldn't try hard enough.
Finally, I broke. I turned around, wrapping my arms around him, and sobbing into his chest. I cried so hard that I thought I would break, and then I screamed. I screamed, and I yelled about everything.
"I was supposed to go on that mission. I was supposed to be with them. I could have……I could have……"
"You couldn't have done anything. You would have been killed to."
"So, it would have been better if I had died," I said, pulling away, and staring defiantly at him, "They were the only ones who loved me, the only ones who cared. Now I have no one."
"That's not true." He yelled, grabbing my shoulders roughly, "That's not true, because……because I….I love you."
"I…Iruka?" I said questioningly, but before I had finished, he pulled me into a short, sweet kiss.
"Be my girlfriend?" he asked, finally pulling away, and placing his forehead on mine.
"Y…Ye…Yes." And I broke into another round of sobs, while Iruka pulled me into a hug.